The problem with suburban office parks is that commuting to them is worse than downtown when you live in the wrong suburb - one on the other side of town from them.
Downtown is a central location that is equally bad to car-commute to for everyone. Suburbs make for okay car-commutes for some people, and utter hell for everyone else.
You can fix downtown commutes by building out good transit networks, but there's no real way to solve the suburb-to-suburb commute problem.
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And no, 'Just move from your suburb to the one that has the office park' doesn't work. Moving costs 6% of realtor fees on <absolutely insane house prices> + a mountain of effort and stress and other money. All for a job that might lay you off/that you'll leave next year.
Downtown is a central location that is equally bad to car-commute to for everyone. Suburbs make for okay car-commutes for some people, and utter hell for everyone else.
You can fix downtown commutes by building out good transit networks, but there's no real way to solve the suburb-to-suburb commute problem.
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And no, 'Just move from your suburb to the one that has the office park' doesn't work. Moving costs 6% of realtor fees on <absolutely insane house prices> + a mountain of effort and stress and other money. All for a job that might lay you off/that you'll leave next year.